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Thinking Allowed: Arab Londoners - Migrants and British identity

08/07/2015

Arab Londoners - Migrants and British identity

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Arab Londoners - Migrants and British identity

Laurie Taylor considers Arab Londoners. Also, migrants' sense of British identity.

Laurie Taylor considers the everyday experience of young British-Arab people in the city. Also, British identity among migrant groups.

Being Arab in London: diaspora and difference in the city. Laurie Taylor talks to Ramy M. K. Aly, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo, about his seven year study of the everyday experiences of young, British-Arab people and the ways in which London has shaped and changed their ethnic identities.

Also, British identity among migrant groups. Dr Saffron Karlsen, Senior Lecturer in Social Research, explores the degree to which ethnic and religious minorities feel themselves to be British.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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